Bottle.



No. 765,876. PATENTED JULY 19, 1904. E. BURNS.

BOTTLE.

APPLICATION FILED NOV.19. 1903.

NO MODEL.

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UNITED STATES Patented July .19, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

BQTTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 765,376, dated July 19,1904.

Application filed November 19, 1903. Serial No. 181,873. No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWARD BURNS, a citizen of the United States,residing at Zearing, in the county of Story and State of Iowa, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Bottles, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention, in common with like devices, has for its object toprevent the reuse of a bottle, receptacle, or like package after oncebeing opened without making detection possible, since the constructionis such as to render mutilation of the bottle or package necessarybefore access can be had to the contents thereof.

The bottle or package is provided with a raised bottom having a pendentstem required to be broken off before the liquid contents may bedrawnoff.

The bottle is filled in the usual manner and is sealed by anon-removable closure, the contents thereof being removed through theoutlet in the bottom resulting from snapping off of the aforesaid stem.A cap protects the stem to prevent breaking thereof in the usualhandling to which the bottle is subjected.

The invention consists of the novel features additional to thoseheretofore mentioned and of the peculiar combination of parts, whichhereinafter will be more particularly set forth, illustrated, andclaimed.

In the drawings hereto attached and forming a part of the specification,Figure 1 is a vertical central section of a bottle embodying theinvention. Fig. 2 is a view of the bottle as seen from the bottom, thecover being removed.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the followingdescription and indicated in both views of the drawings by the samereference characters.

The bottle or analogous receptacle or package is indicated at 1, and itsneck 2 is provided with an inner groove 3. The bottom 4 of the bottle israised, leaving a pendent portion or rim 5, inclosing a space 6, whichis covered by the closure or cap 7. To prevent casual displacement ofthe cover or cap 7, the

lower edge of the rim 5 is beaded or outbottle or package.

A tube 8 is pendent from the bottom 4 and I is closed at its outer orlower end and is adapted to bebroken ofif when it is required to pouroff the contents of the bottle. The tube 8 is of frangible material, soas to be readily broken, and any instrument may be provided for snappingthe same. As shown, a wrench or tool 9 has been devised and forconvenience is located in the space 6 and is prevented from being lostby the cover or cap 7. One end of the tool is provided with an openingor ring for reception of the tube 8, the handle of the tool'being ofsuch relative length as to facilitate the snapping of the tube when usedas a lever after the apertured end has been fitted over the tube.

The bottle or package is supplied to the party or concern to be filledwith the particular brand of goods with the wrench 9 and cover 7 inplace and is adapted to be filled in the usual way. After the bottle hasbeen filled it is sealed in a manner to prevent removal of the closureand toprevent access being had to the contents except by snapping off ofthe tube 8. As shown, the closure consists of a stopper 10, preferablyof glass, having a groove 11 to register with the groove 3.

A lock-spring 12 is fitted to the stopper so as to spring into thegrooves 3 and 11 and prevent removal of the stopper after the latter hasbeen pressed home into the neck of the The inner end of the stopper isprovided with suitable packing 13 to prevent leakage and insure theformation of a tight joint.

A bottle or package embodying the invention cannot be opened to draw ofithe contents without removing the cover or cap 7 and snapping off thetube 8, thereby mutilating the bottle to such an extent as to preventits reuse without detection by the average observing person.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is 1. Asealed bottle or package having a depressed portion and provided with atube projected into the depression and adapted to be broken off to admitof access being had to the contents of the bottle, and a cap closing thedepression and providing a protection for the aforesaid tube to preventinjury thereto in the ordinary handling of the bottle, substantially asset forth.

2. A bottle or like package having its bottom raised and provided with atube pendent from the bottom and extended into the space formed by thependent portion of the body, a tool for breaking off said tube arrangedin the space below the bottom, and a coverfor retaining the tool inplace and affording protection for the tube, substantially as set forth.

3. In combination, a bottle or like package having its body portionprojected below the bottom to form a space and having a tube projectedfrom the bottom into said space, a closure secured within the neck ofthe bottle against removal, a tool for breaking off said pendent tubearranged within the space below the bottom, and a cover fitted to thependent portion of the body and closing the space below the bottom andprotecting the tube from injury and retaining the tool in place,substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

EDWARD BURNS. [L. s] Witnesses:

CHAS. YEAGER, E. E. BARTLETT.

